[Commlist] cfp: Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation

The Global Latinidades Project in cooperation with The Multicultural 
Center, and The Graduate Center for Literary Research at the University 
of California, Santa Barbara,

Interdisciplinary Conference:
Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and 
Reconciliation
Deadline for proposals: March 27th


Keynote: Carolina Sourdis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

The conference approaches the phenomena of forced displacement and mass
migration by focusing on works of dis-/placed female artists and 
exploring the ways that these
artists have articulated and imagined myriad forms of identity, 
resistance, belonging, and home.
This conference invites paper proposals, video essays (finished and 
works-in-progress) to reflect
on how the material and symbolic dilemmas of dis-/placement, 
definitions/categorizations of
“female”, and conceptualizations of inside and outside—from the 
boundaries of nation states, to
the familial, to those of race, class, gender, and sexuality—are 
negotiated across aesthetic
categories and transnational geographies. The conference sets out to 
trace, then, the ways in which
poetics of dis-/placement and re-/integration might communicate 
contemporary entanglements
of love, violence, and feminine resistance and consider how notions of 
reckoning and
reconciliation might counter structural violence(s), criminalization, 
and racialization related to
myriad forms of female of dis-/placement. At the same time, this event 
aims to consider the racial
and cultural tensions of dis-/placement and take into account the limits 
and possibilities of building
communities across racial, cultural, geographical, and generational borders.

While all proposals are welcome under this larger, broader thematic, we 
especially invite proposals
that focus on the works of dis-/placed Latin American artists in 
particular. We accept proposals both in English and Spanish.

Possible topics of papers and video essays include, but are not limited to:

• Poetics and politics of dis-/placement in film, literature and art
• Displaced identities and mobile boundaries
• “Feminine” subjectivities as political resistance
• Gendered subjectivities and memory politics
• Artistic imaginings of home and belonging
• Racial, cultural and de-colonial tensions of displacement
• Afro Latinx Female aesthetics
• Critical examinations of political and legal 
definitions/categorizations or public discourses
about human rights, criminalization, and racialization
• Considerations of how intimate and/or subjective narratives might 
coalesce into collective
and political dimensions
• The ethics of representation and storytelling
• Internal exile and gender
• Racialized dispossession and dis-/placement
• Labor
• And more

We ask that all presentations be limited to 20 minutes. For video 
essays, the presentation can
consist of a maximum of 10 minutes of screening (an excerpt can be 
chosen if the essay exceeds
this limit) with the remaining time dedicated to presentation by the author.
Proposals must comprise a 300-word max abstract for papers, and for the 
video essay a 300-word
author statement where the sources of the images that are used in the 
essay are specified. All
proposals should also include full name, affiliation (if any) and a 
100-word bio. We especially
invite hybrid proposals between scholarly and creative work. 
Presentations in English or Spanish
are welcome. Lastly, thanks to the generosity of the Global Latinidades 
Project and the
Multicultural Center, limited funding for airfare, lodging, etc. is 
available for some accepted
presentations (via reimbursement).

Please email proposals to:
(conference.lvfr.ucsb /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(conference.lvfr.ucsb /at/ gmail.com)>

Submission deadline: March 27th, 2023
Selected participants will be notified of their acceptance by April 3rd, 
2023
Date of the conference: May 12th, 2023

Conference made possible by the generosity of:
The Global Latinidades Project, The Multicultural Center, The Graduate 
Center for Literary
Research, The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, The Spanish and 
Portuguese Dept., and the
Latin American & Iberian Studies Program


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